Television and the Cyborg Subject(ed)
Author : Lynne Joyrich
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Television and women
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Re-viewing Reception
Author : Lynne Joyrich
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253210784
Book Description
"This is an ambitious analysis of television studies as a whole." --Library Journal Focusing on U.S. television of the 1980s--from Miami Vice, Moonlighting, and Pee-wee's Playhouse to Max Headroom--Lynne Joyrich explores how gender affects the reception of television. She traces how the medium has been chracterized as "feminine" and then turns to the television shows themselves and analyzes a range of genres and forms.
Watch this Space: an Interview with Edward Soja
Author : Gareth Evans
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 1990
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Cyborg Theology
Author : Scott A. Midson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1786732955
Book Description
In particular, Donna Haraway argued in her famous 1991 'Cyborg Manifesto' that people, since they are so often now detached and separated from nature, have themselves evolved into cyborgs. This striking idea has had considerable influence within critical theory, cultural studies and even science fiction (where it has surfaced, for example, in the Terminator films and in the Borg of the Star Trek franchise). But it is a notion that has had much less currency in theology. In his innovative new book, Scott Midson boldly argues that the deeper nuances of Haraway's and the cyborg idea can similarly rejuvenate theology, mythology and anthropology. Challenging the damaging anthropocentrism directed towards nature and the non-human in our society, the author reveals - through an imaginative reading of the myth of Eden - how it is now possible for humanity to be at one with the natural world even as it vigorously pursues novel, 'post-human', technologies.
Through the Screen Wildly
Author : Joanne Benford
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
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As with the relationship between any two cultural areas, the flow of ideas between science and science fiction is two-way. An exchange of knowledge and perspectives exists, fed by the concerns of society at large. This book explores the dialogues that take place between science fiction and the postmodern world, and what effects these have had on identity. I take the science fiction novel to be the paradigmatic form of postmodernism. Instead of presenting a truth with possible explanations between which it may be impossible to choose, the science fiction novel presents possible worlds. The 'stuff' of fiction, the 'human condition', is framed by unusual worlds which in turn create surprising dilemmas with which the characters must cope. It is this question of possible worlds, exploring how they relate to temporality in postmodern fiction, linking to ideas of hyperspace, and finally to my discussion of the postmodern city and the notion of the wildzone.
Cartesian Reason and Gendered Reason
Author : Margaret Atherton
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 1990
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Technology Transformation
Author : Michelle Tung
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Animated films
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Terror's Theatre: a Post-mortem Polemic
Author : Anthony Kubiak
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 1990
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Rethinking the Public Sphere: a Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy
Author : Nancy Fraser
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Democracy
ISBN :
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Electronic Eros
Author : Claudia Springer
Publisher : Athlone Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Book Description
A study of the love affair between humans and machines, which has now expanded into cyberspace, where computer technology seems to promise heightened erotic fulfilment and the threat of human obsolescence. The author explores the techno-erotic imagery in films, cyberpunk fiction, comic books, television, software, and writing on virtual reality and artificial intelligence, showing how these futuristic images actually erode current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality. technology, the author offers an analysis of eroticism and gender in such films as RoboCop, The Terminator, Eve of Destruction and Lawnmower Man, and cyberpunk books such as Neuromancer, Count Zero, Virtual Light, A Fire in the Sun, and Lady El. She also looks at comic books like Cyberpunk and Interface, and at the television series Mann and Machine, demonstrating that while new technologies have inspired change in some pop culture texts, others stubbornly recycle conventions from the past, refusing to come to terms with the new social order.
